Harvard Art Museums > 1954.5: Fame Carrying a Portrait of Cardinal Mazarin Drawings Collections Search Exit Deep Zoom Mode Zoom Out Zoom In Reset Zoom Full Screen Add to Collection Order Image Copy Link Copy Citation Citation"Fame Carrying a Portrait of Cardinal Mazarin (Charles Le Brun) , 1954.5,” Harvard Art Museums collections online, May 03, 2024, https://hvrd.art/o/297120. Reuse via IIIF Toggle Deep Zoom Mode Download This object does not yet have a description. Identification and Creation Object Number 1954.5 People Charles Le Brun, French (Paris 1619 - 1690 Paris) Title Fame Carrying a Portrait of Cardinal Mazarin Other Titles Alternate Title: Fame with a Portrait of Cardinal Mazarin Classification Drawings Work Type drawing Date 17th century Culture French Persistent Link https://hvrd.art/o/297120 Physical Descriptions Medium Black and red chalk with gray wash on cream antique laid paper, framing lines in brown ink and black chalk, partially incised, verso reddened for transfer Dimensions 18.6 x 20.5 cm (7 5/16 x 8 1/16 in.) Inscriptions and Marks inscription: verso, lower right, black chalk: Puget inscription: in drawing, on flag, upper right, black chalk: ELOGII / DEL / CARDINAL / MAZARINI watermark: none inscription: on small tab, lower right, black ink over graphite: vy. [illegible] Provenance Recorded Ownership History John Thane, London (his mark L.1544, lower left); William Young Ottley, London (his mark, L.2665, mount, lower right); Castano Gallery, Boston, sold; to Harvard Art Museum/Fogg Museum, William C. Heilman Fund, 1954.5 Acquisition and Rights Credit Line Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, William C. Heilman Fund Accession Year 1954 Object Number 1954.5 Division European and American Art Contact am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu Permissions The Harvard Art Museums encourage the use of images found on this website for personal, noncommercial use, including educational and scholarly purposes. To request a higher resolution file of this image, please submit an online request. Publication History Pierre Rosenberg, "Review: Le Brun at Versailles", Master Drawings, Master Drawings Association (New York, 1963), vol. 1, no. 3, Autumn, pp. 54-56, 98-99, p. 55 Pierre Rosenberg, French Master Drawings of the 17th & 18th Centuries in North American Collections / Dessins français du 17ème & du 18ème siècles des collections américaines, exh. cat., Secker & Warburg (London, 1972-1973), p. 174 Konrad Oberhuber, European Master Drawings of Six Centuries from the Collection of the Fogg Art Museum, exh. cat., National Museum of Western Art (Tokyo, 1979), cat. no. 64, n.p. Hilliard T. Goldfarb, From Fontainebleau to the Louvre: French Drawing from the Seventeenth-Century, exh. cat., Cleveland Museum of Art/Indiana University Press (Cleveland, 1989), cat. no. 102, pp. 200-201 Véronique Meyer, L'œuvre gravé de Gilles Rousselet: graveur parisien du XVIIe siècle, Commission des Travaux Historiques de la Ville de Paris (Paris, 2004), pp. 296-98 Alvin L. Clark, Jr. and Edouard Kopp, French Drawings from the Age of Claude, Poussin, Watteau, and Fragonard: Highlights from the Collection of the Harvard Art Museums, Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2022), cat. no. 30, repr. Exhibition History European Master Drawing of Six Centuries from the Collection of the Fogg Art Museum, National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 11/03/1979 - 12/16/1979 From Fontainebleau to the Louvre: French Drawings from the 17th Century, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, 12/13/1989 - 01/28/1990; Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 02/24/1990 - 04/08/1990; National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, 05/06/1990 - 06/17/1990 Verification Level This record has been reviewed by the curatorial staff but may be incomplete. Our records are frequently revised and enhanced. For more information please contact the Division of European and American Art at am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
